Excerpt from Child Life in the Colonies: New Amsterdam

Henry Hudson, or as the Dutch called him, Hendrick Hudson, commanded a small vessel. Called the half-moon. He had a crew of twenty Dutchmen and Englishmen.

At first Hudson steered the half-moon in a northerly direction. But the intense cold and huge icebergs of the Arctic Ocean terrified his men, so he turned his vessel about and sailed towards the west.

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